Top 415 Exquisite Quotes & Sayings

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.

A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.

A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art.

The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?

Everything that is exquisite hides itself.

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

It is only when we decide that 'ordinary' is an insult, that we become the exquisite miracles we were born to be.

Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

It's amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite.

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.

I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.

The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature.

Elegance is exquisite polish.

But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?

The most exquisite paradox; as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.

The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.

I believe, every day, you should have at least one exquisite moment.

The body of a beautiful woman is not made for love; it is too exquisite.

There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.

The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty.

In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.

I like clothes that stimulate the senses, fashion that is both exquisite and intellectual.

Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.

Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.

The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine.

Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The Romans were foreigners writing for foreigners two millenniums ago; and for people whose gods we find quaint, whose savagery we abominate, whose private habits we don't like to talk about, but whose idea of what is exquisite is, we flatter ourselves, mysteriously identical to ours.

Having kids is a full-time job. And I don't know any woman who isn't constantly fighting between the exquisite selfishness required to be an artist and this exquisite selflessness that's required to be a parent.

Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten inside.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

The joy of God is so exquisite that any sacrifice is worth the effort and seeming pain.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

[Adoption] could turn you into an exquisite comedian. Ask Richard Pryor's ghost.

He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.

We can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite precision.

Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.

...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.

Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.

Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

AZRAEL: No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air.

'Midnight Cowboy' is an exquisite piece of filmmaking. It's insane.

Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home.